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(No Model.) I A. R. BROWN 8: E. C. J. DEVIS.

COIN CONTROLLED APPARATUS No. 553,204. Patented Jan. 14, 1-896.

M. g/ENTORS WITNESSES V $7 M. PHOTOUMQWASM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR R. BROWVN, OF LONDON, AND E'DVVIN O. J. D E VIS, OF SCHOOL ROAD,NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNORS TO CLARENCE IV. DE KNIGHT, OF\VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

COIN-CONTROLLED APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,204, dated January14, 1896.

Application filed November 25, 1895. Serial No. 570,098. (No model.)Patented in England March 28, 1890, No. 4,87%

T aZZ whom it may concern: which is either pressed toward the front of45 Be it known that we, ARTHUR RICHARD the machine by a spring or weightor is a BROWN, residing at The Park, Harrow, Lonspring itself. The coinbeing pressed through don, in the county of Middlesex, and EDWIN thecoin-orifice 0 in the front wall 0 of the O. J. DEVIs, re'sidingatLaurelCottage, School casing presses the bar 6 backward till theRoad,nearBirmingham,in the county of lVarnotched end of the rack gcatches over a fixed 5o wick, England, subjects of the Queen of Greatstop it and retains it in the position shown, g Britain, have inventednew and useful Imbeing the heavier end of the lever. The coin provementsin Coin- Controlled Apparatus, then falls down and is guided by theplate 0 10 (shown in our British Letters Patent No.4,874, onto the trayf, which it bears down,releasing dated March 28, 1890;) and we do herebydethe rack from the stop it and lifting it into clare the following tobe a full, clear, and exgear with the pinion a of the rotatable eleactdescription of said invention, reference ment. The weight or springbrings the bar 6 being had to the accompanying drawing, and and rack gforward again, rotating the pinion I 5 to the letters of referencemarked thereon, a and the exhibiting element F), and when the whichforms a part of this specification. rack is clear of the pinion,thelever tilts under This invention relates to coin-controlled apthe weightof the coin and the latter slips ofi paratus, and has particularreference to that into the hopper d. type of such machines which exhibitgames The rack and pinion may be of the fric- 20 or amusements of chanceor depend in some tional type.

measure upon chance. In such machines The stop a may be yielding-1ysupported in it is common to employ rotatable exhibiting order to morereadily permit the rack g to pass elements which are operated or startedto backward between it and the pinion a, and rotate or spin by variousmeans. the teeth of the rack are so inclined as to per- 25 The object ofthis present invention is the mit them to slip over the teeth of thepinion production of improved means for starting when passing rearwardlyand engage said and rotating the exhibiting element by the teethwhenreturning. power stored in a spring during the act of in- Having nowdescribed our invention, what sorting a coin; and to this end theinvention we claim is- 5 36 consists in the construction andcombination 1. In a coin-controlled apparatus, a rotatof partssubstantially as hereinafter described able exhibiting element, a springhaving con- 7 5 and claimed. nections so as to rotate said element inone In the drawing, the figure represents a side direction, andmechanism operated by the inelevation of the mechanism constituting oursertion of a coin in a suitable slot to store 3 5 invention, and so muchof the casing, in secpower in said spring, one of the elements of tion,as is necessary to illustrate the location said mechanism consisting ofa movable bar of said mechanism. 5 or arm extending across the pathwayof the A pinion a'is fixed to the rotatable spindle coin at a distancefrom the mouth of the slot or shaft of the drum or disk Z), which mayhave less than the diameter of the coin, whereby 40 pictures, figures orother characters thereon, the coin itself, in the act of insertionthrough and constitutes the exhibiting element of a the slot, may act asthe prime mover for so-called fortune-telling machine. storing power inthe spring.

f is a tray and g a rack, the two forming a 2. In a coin-controlledapparatus, a rotatlever supported atthe lower end of a bar e, ableexhibiting element, a spring having connections so as to rotate saidelement in one direction, and mechanism operated by the insertion of acoin in a suitable slot to store power in said spring.

3. In a coin-controlled apparatus, the combination With the casinghaving a coin slot, of the bar 6 extending across the path of the slotand having the lever composed of the tray f and rack g pivoted to itslower end, and the rotatable element 1) having the pinion a,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

ARTHUR RICHARD BROWN. EDXVIN O. J. DEVIS. Witnesses as to signature ofArthur Richard Brown:

W. BIBBY, E. COURTNEY WALKER. Vitnesses as to signature of Edwin C. J.Devis:

L. A. STRATroN, S. L. KENNEDY.

